Dec r 1806

Scotch Reform │ │ To L d Grenville

Facienda

II. Registration

 therefore this to Facienda[?]

Your L dp will smile to find an inquiry

The smile will rise to laughter when

It will be no bad joke after [...?] when L d Erskine will be thinking of a Committee for me[?] alone[?] &c

For the purpose /On the occasion/ of the work part of which is designed to accompany this my humble address in the character of an appendix, as well as for the purpose /on the occasion/ of other works, occasion had presented itself for considering the subject of judicial registration

Descriptions of persons to whose situation with relation to whose situation the entries[?] in question may be matter of necessity or use - Parties, Representatives and other persons connected with the parties by any special tie - third person (individuals) at large - the judge and the legislator.

Purposes with reference to which it may be matter of useful /informative/ instruction to the legislator, to have the faculty of /it in his power to/ making himself acquainted with the facts /constituting the subject matter of the entries/ to be registered: notice of the quantity of delay, vexation and expence (vexation in all its different shapes and to the different descriptions of persons exposed to it from this source) produced in the course of each individual suit, and by what causes the influence, for the purpose of confining in each species of suit the quantity of collateral inconvenience within its narrowest bounds: nature of the evidence produced, and of the evidence of any rejected with the grounds of the rejection: for the purposes of offering /presenting throughout/ to the eye of the legislator a comprehensive and distinct view of the deception /design/ /probability/ and thence of misdecision as well as vexation in each case to the admission or the exclusion given to this evidence.